Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-01-29
AGED.

How can you expect a woman to keep up
with the age, when she has so much difficult
ty in keeping up with her own.-Burlington
Free Press.
Brown-ssWhat did you think of the player
Fogg-'' Fairly good thing; but what [ OBJ
ject to is the intense realism in the third act
"a church scene, you know. It was SO natur-
al that actually went to sleep."-Boston
Transcript.
In the record of marriages. of Christ
church, Philadelphia, under date OF March
5, 1855, will be found that of John Codd and
Mary Fish, the ceremony being performed
by Rev. William Sturgeon.
Historical Magazine.
A good deal is said just now in regard to
heating steam cars without the risk of con-
hagration in case of accident. Bass saws
that on his railroad they have solved the
problem perfectly. They don's heat their
cars.-Boston Transcript.
When a sealskin sacque costs $500, and a
diamond solitaire ring half much more,
what does ton of coal come to? The answer
ought to be ''ashes;" but we find by close
calculation that it is really fclinkers and
slate. Lowell Courier.
"A young man sswho can milk and take
care of furnace" advertises in the New York
Herald for a situation. Some milkman
should hire him. The pumps could be given
rest with man on the place who can milk
furnace.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Mother: Johnnie, brush the dust off your
boots" Johnnie: sis that the kind of dust
papa was talking to governess about" "What
did he say?" 'He said, 'Dost thou love me,
Agnesg" "No, it was not, Johnnie; but
Agnes will dust out of here tomorrow morn
ing"
A monkey escaped from museum at
Providence, r. l., the other Sunday and en-
tered church during the morning service.
AS the animal did not have its hair parted in
the middle and did not sit down beside a
/ y.ung lady, it attracted great deal more
attention than most monkeys do when they
attend church.-Newman Independent.
s'What was that great racket I heard in
your woodshed after you got home from fish
ing last night?' asked one Estelline small boy
of another. ''It was me swingin' the buggy
whip for fun," the other replied. "But
heard somebody jumpin' around, too" ooh,
| that was pa, seeing if he could jump over
| the wash-boiler and two tubs" '.But who
| was it yelled so like thunder?" ''Why, every
| time he made an extra high jump he would
holler, kinder in fun, you know."-Estelline
| Bell.
| We clip the following astonishing sentence
| from that compendium of pure English, tht
| New York Sun: "For the past thirty days i
has been the talk on 'Change that Norman B
Ream, whose $500, 900 residence wss burned
| this morning, and whose luck for three year
has been SO phenomenal, that from being sc
| thoroughly busted that he had to order hi
trades closed he is now worth several mil
lions, has at last been hoodooed.' We hav'
| the greatest respect for our esteemed con
| temporary, Mr.. Dana. We believe that
vocabulary, journalist, and a FRIEND
to the undertaken, he is without his equal il
this country, but we think he owes the pub
lie some explanation as to this new verb. ST
hoodoo" Whence is it doorived? Who doot
it, so to speak? And what did the dude VIII
| did it mean? And should he not have satt
that Mr. Ream has at last been hoodone
and have gone on to tell hoodone it?-Life.